56 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation the action being taken to assist struggling businesses who are finding it hard to file their accounts on time in view of the fact that the Companies Registration Office has announced that it will not waive sanctions on companies who breach the rules even if economic hardship was the cause; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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502 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if Navan town has been identified as being in need of a new secondary school; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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501 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if there are any plans for a new secondary school in Navan County Meath; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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421 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Social Protection if there is a pensions system in place for Irish citizens who have worked here but are now living abroad; the position regarding same; if they are entitled to non-contributory State pensions; or if there is a system in place where they can pay contributions to the State for an Irish contributory pension, similar to the British system which allows British citizens to pay contributions over nine years from abroad and entitles them to contributory pensions.
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277 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Health and Children when the Health Service Executive will confirm the appointment of a new consultant haematologist for Letterkenny General Hospital, County Donegal; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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92 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills when the Labour Market Activation Fund opened the tender competition; when the tender competition closed; the number of organisations and bodies that tendered for the activation fund; the number of organisations and bodies that were successful in the tender; the location of the successful organisations; the number of training and education places that are expected to be created in each; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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85 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the schools in which school librarians are employed, on a county basis; if she can confirm that the contracts of these librarians will not be renewed; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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351 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the number of rented prefabricated buildings in use in schools in County Donegal.
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266 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Defence if there is a cap on recruitment to the Permanent Defence Force; if it is anticipated that recruitment will begin shortly; the criteria and standards that are used, in terms of vision, hearing and other capacities for applicants for admission; if there is a specific level of visual capacity required, particularly in respect of colour identification, for applicants to the Permanent Defence Force; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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260 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons in County Donegal, excluding pensioners, in receipt of social welfare.
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53 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Questions Nos 102, 104 and 106 of 16 December 2009, if he will provide updated figures of the numbers of public sector workers in County Donegal earning less than €20,000, €30,000, €40,000, €50,000, €60,000, €70,000, €80,000, €90,000 and €100,000 and earning more than €100,000 per annum, distinguishing atypical work patterns and earnings by employees such as work sharing and temporary or short term work; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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52 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Questions Nos 102, 104 and 106 of 16 December 2009, if he will provide updated figures of the numbers of public sector workers in County Donegal earning less than €20,000, €30,000, €40,000, €50,000, €60,000, €70,000, €80,000, €90,000 and €100,000 and earning more than €100,000 per annum excluding various forms of income from public sources to groups that would not normally be regarded as being employed within the public service, for example persons receiving fees and those on the State Boards; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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51 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 102, 104 and 106 of 16 December 2009, if he will provide updated figures of the numbers of public sector workers in County Donegal earning less than €20,000, €30,000, €40,000, €50,000, €60,000, €70,000, €80,000, €90,000 and €100,000 and earning more than €100,000 per annum.
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44 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Finance the number of persons in County Donegal employed by the State earning less than €20,000 per year; the number of persons in County Donegal employed by the State earning less than €30,000 per year; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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3 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Taoiseach the number of persons on the Live Register in December 2009, broken down by age, gender and county; the number of persons on the Live Register in December 2008, broken down by age, gender and county; the number of persons on the Live Register in December 2007, broken down by age, gender and county; the number of persons on the Live Register in April 2007, broken down by age, gender and county; the number of persons on the Live Register in April 2002, broken down by age, gender and county; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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161 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills when the labour market activation fund will make calls for proposals in view of the fact that it has been more than five months since the establishment of the fund was announced and the call for proposals was supposed to take place in the first quarter of 2010; the length of time that interested parties will have to express interest in view of the fact that it was originally expected that proposals would come on stream in the middle of 2010; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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35 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the steps that are being taken to address an issue whereby many secondary schools will reopen in September 2010 without year heads due to the ban on filling middle management positions; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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33 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the steps that she will take to reduce the number of school principals who intend to retire early.
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507 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the number of student grant applicants who have yet to be notified of a final decision regarding their grant application for the current academic year 2009-10, on a county basis; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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499 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills when a request for a new school building will reach design and planning stage in respect of a school (details supplied) in County Louth; when tenders are expected to issue in respect of this development; the length of time construction is expected to take to complete this facility; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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369 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Social Protection when payment will issue on an application for domiciliary care in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Donegal.
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58 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation the progress that has been made to date in implementing the recommendations of the mid-west task force from its interim report of July 2009; the progress that have been made to date in dealing with each of the recommendations in respect of action being taken by his Department in assessing the recommendations and implementing them and the status of each recommendation; the progress that has been made in seeking and restoring Objective 1 status for Raheen Business Park, the National Technology Park and Shannon Free Zone in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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112 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the communication he has had with the forum that was set up at European level to oversee the implementation of the high level group on the competitiveness of the EU agri-food industry of July 2009; if there are Irish representatives on this forum; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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110 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the number of persons employed by the Sea Fisheries Protection Authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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172 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if the State has any sovereign claim to Rockall; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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166 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if there is a complaints procedure in place in his Department for persons who feel aggrieved; if he will outline any such procedure and the way it functions; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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96 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Finance the amount of money that has been repaid to PAYE workers in respect of the tax relief on trade union subscriptions each year since the tax relief was introduced; the amount he estimates that should have been repaid in each of those years in respect of the number of PAYE workers who are trade union members and did not claim the relief in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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87 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the rationalisation of hospital laboratory services; if she will confirm that the Association of Clinical Biochemists in Ireland was not consulted in the drawing up of the Teamwork report on this matter, despite her statement in Dáil Éireann on 8 December 2009 that stakeholders were consulted; her views regarding the report by Teamwork Management Services which claimed that the quality of laboratory services here is of a poor standard; if she and the Health Service Executive have examined the danger of fragmentation of services with the separation of testing in primary and secondary care and the weakening of clinical liaison and input under the proposed privatised and centralised model; her plans to commission a cost benefit analysis of a system that would see these services outsourced, many of them possibly abroad; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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76 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Health and Children the policy and procedures in place to ensure that Health Service Executive facilities for older persons are upgraded, when so required by the Health Information and Quality Authority, in such a manner as to cause minimum disruption to residents; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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234 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills her plans to build a new school on a green-field site in an area (details supplied) in County Sligo; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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233 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the proposed improvements at a school (details supplied) in County Sligo; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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232 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if there are proposals to close or merge a school (details supplied) in county Sligo; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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79 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the cost of the proposed pilot scheme to electronically tag a number of offenders; if the decision to pursue the use of electronic tags while simultaneously reducing the number of probation officers was based on new evidence in view of the fact that existing evidence from an evaluation of their use in England found that it cost twice as much to electronically tag an offender as to supervise them by a member of the Probation Service; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that private security companies that administer the electronic tagging scheme do not routinely follow up violations by individual offenders; if his further attention has been drawn to the fact that the authorities there pay private tagging companies approximately three times the actual cost of each offender monitored and electronic monitoring does not reduce re-offending.
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26 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his views on whether the reduction in the number of probation officers and community service supervisors resulting from the moratorium on recruitment is compounding the overcrowding problem in our prisons.
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97 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation the general level of compliance with the 15-day payment rule throughout Departments; the amount of late payment interest that has been incurred across all Departments in respect of non-payment within these 15 days since it came into effect in June 2009; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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66 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation the progress that has been made in the appointment of a person to draw up a voluntary code of practise to regulate the retail sector; when he expects that this appointment will be made; the proposed timeline for the publication of this code of practice in view of the recent difficulties in finding a candidate to draw up this code; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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43 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Finance the proposed reduction, by sector, in public sector numbers targeted in the draft public service agreement.
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25 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills her views on whether it is appropriate for children in vocational education committee schools to be segregated during religious instruction; if she will reverse this policy; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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22 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills her views on whether the recent low uptake of science subjects by secondary school students is a direct result of cutbacks in this field which included the removal of the annual grant to support the teaching of physics and chemistry; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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279 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs his plans for the two community development projects (details supplied) in the Donegal Gaeltacht in view of the fact that proposals have been submitted to his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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122 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Finance the arrears that will benefit from pensions funds foregone by former officeholders of the Houses of the Oireachtas; if it will be ring-fenced or if same will go to the general Exchequer; if these funds will be reclaimed by former officeholders in the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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207 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs when a decision will be made in relation to the jobseeker’s allowance appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Louth; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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117 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Finance if he will explore the role of credit rating agencies in the financial crisis; if it will be within the remit of the Financial Regulator or the Central Bank Commission to ensure the transparency of the credit rating process; if reliance on these ratings will be reduced over time in view of the fact that at the height of the boom these agencies gave high ratings to highly risky products; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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54 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of the promised 2,000 to 4,000 houses that have been brought into social use as part of the general leasing scheme announced in February 2009 not including unsold affordable houses leased in partnership with the voluntary sector housing associations.
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21 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the local authority housing waiting lists, broken down by local authority, as of 1 March 2010; the number of households in receipt of the rental accommodation scheme in 2009 and 2010 broken down by quarter.
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958 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Science the financial supports, including grants, available to students in part-time undergraduate study; the financial supports, including grants, available to students in part-time postgraduate study; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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795 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of jobs lost to date in each local authority area since July 2008; and the number of jobs lost in each county council since July 2008.
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201 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Finance the composition of the Irish companies who were awarded Irish public contracts to the value of more than €4 billion advertised in the Official Journal of the EU in 2008; the details of the size of these companies in respect of the number of them that had a turnover of more than €10 million and the number that had less than €10 million; if these public contracts were broken down in order that small Irish companies could tender; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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